1.   A cardiologist was waiting for Wenzel at Austin Diagnostic Medical Center, where a blood clot was removed with an emergency angioplasty.

2.   Hours later, a gurney whisked him toward emergency angioplasty surgery.

3.   It is now common medical practice for patients who suffer heart attacks to undergo emergency angioplasty and insertion of one or more stents.

4.   She underwent an emergency angioplasty to clear one blockage, and subsequently had a second angioplasty and then heart bypass surgery.

5.   The cause was complications of emergency angioplasty, The Associated Press reported.

6.   As for emergency angioplasties, the college and American Heart Association generally recommend that they be done at high-volume centers.

7.   Besides fewer repeat heart attacks, the group that got the combination therapy had less need for emergency angioplasty.

8.   Dr. Douglas Weaver of the University of Washington questioned whether ordinary physicians, unlike specialists who are adept at emergency angioplasties, can perform them safely.

9.   That includes emergency angioplasties as well as elective ones, which are not done during a heart attack.